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Police hunt drone user targeting asylum seekers with eggs and stink bombs
29 April 2025, 10:57 | Updated: 29 April 2025, 11:00
Asylum seekers are being targeted by a drone dropping eggs and stink bombs above hotel accommodation, LBC can reveal.
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Several incidents, which appear to have been filmed and uploaded to social media by the person responsible, have taken place this month.
They show the birds-eye view from a drone flying towards and then hovering above the Holiday Inn Express in Tamworth.
One clip, captioned "stink bomb drone drops on asylum seekers" shows an item being dropped from a height next to a man standing outside its front door.
It's accompanied by the song 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot' and has been viewed more than half a million times.
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Another captioned "egg drops" shows the drone following three people out of its front door through a car park.
It then appears to drop an egg from around 50ft in the air, narrowly missing them as the caption changes to "missed by a meter".
They can be seen turning around as it smashed in to the ground beside them in the footage viewed 700,000 times.
This is the same hotel which was attacked by rioters in August last year.
Other videos on the same account, uploading the footage to TikTok appear to show stink bombs being dropped into a beer garden as well as images of the drone itself.
The profile behind them has amassed more than 8500 followers and 90,000 likes since its creation.
After being contacted by LBC, Staffordshire Police has revealed it is now actively being investigated.
A spokesperson said: "We are aware of a number of videos published on social media purporting to show a drone being used by a member of the public over a number of locations in Tamworth.
"Officers are conducting inquiries locally and are investigating possible offences being committed in breach of the Air Navigation Order 2016.
"We will continue to monitor the area to provide reassurance to the community."
We've asked the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) to comment.
